Victor Giannakouris
Graduate Research Assistant
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolVictor Giannakouris is a Ph.D. candidate and graduate research assistant at Cornell University who builds systems at the intersection of data management and generative AI, with work spanning dynamic table generation (SwellDB), learned tuning (λ-Tune), and LLM-assisted query performance debugging (DBG-PT). With 11 years of industry and research experience, he has shipped database internals and large-scale analytics features at TileDB and contributed research internships at Microsoft and IBM. His background blends production engineering—from big-data APM and web crawlers to Spark SQL optimization—with academic rigor, achieving order-of-magnitude speedups in heterogeneous query execution. Based in Ithaca, he combines systems-level implementation skills with research that probes how LLMs can be integrated into database engines, making him adept at translating cutting-edge ideas into practical infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computing Systems - Software and Hardware, Master of Science - MS, Computing Systems - Software and Hardware at National & Kapodistrian University of AthensDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Informatics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatics at Ionian UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Amarynthos High School
English, Greek
Github Skills (35)
retrieval10
data-storage10
gwas10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
data-science9
beans9
spark9
consumption9
python9
storage9
java-agent9
jmx9
compiler-construction9
trinodb8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gsvic/MuSQLE
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:52 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
gsvic/Cosine-Similarity-with-MapReduce
Oct 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:40 commits, 4 pushes in 5 months
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